The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-06-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.
John Lenfest, OF Minneapolis, was killed
at breckenridge.


at breckenridge.
ta, Ga, is under arrest on suspicion Of
having stolen 5000 from his roommate at
the Milwaukee house u few weeks ago. In
his trunk were found several suits oi
clothes, though, to be disguises, also hair,
false whiskers, dark lantern, etc. !,
Fourty-four car loads OF sugar and syr'
up arrived in st. Paul, over the Manitoba'
coming from San Francisco via the Cana.
dian Pacific The shipment consists Of
1000 barrels and /, 500 sacks OF sugar.
and 295 barrels OF syrup.
Mr.. Franklin Cook, an early resident o.
Minneapolis died recently at his home.
He has been a navy contractor and bridge
builder, and under Gen. Warren had
charge OF the improvements OF the Missis.
sippi river between the two cities, and
personally superintended the construction
OF the apron OF the Falls OF st. Anthony.
Application was made to Gov. McGill by
the governor OF Nebraska for Il requisition
for j. j. Hartigan OF Tracey. this state.
The groun Is for tho request are that Har-
tigan has been guilty Of conspiracy grow.
ing out OF the organization and subsequent
transactions OF Il bank at Tracey. The
requisition was denied on the ground that
Hartigan had never been in Nebraska.
Gov. McGill has received information
from Norman }. Colman, commissioner oi
agriculture, that pleuro- pneumonia exists
in the following counties in the various
states named; New Westchester,
Richmond, Kings, Queens Suffolk and New
York; Maryland-Howard. Baltimore,
Carroll, and Prince George; Illinois-Cook
county. The circular conveying the an.
nouncement is dated May "a.
IT:. A.
fortunate recipient OF splendidly painted
pioneers OF the state-Norman w. kittson
and Henry H. Sibley. They are the gift OF
jaime j Hill, who had them expressly execut-
ed by Mr.. Blight, one OF the most talented
portrait painters who ever visited this
locality.
Mr.. Oakes, for the Northern Pacific.
maintains that the state railroad COM
missioners have no jurisdiction in a mat.
ter OF tariff Oh ties.
j. NJ. Mayfed, in Minneapolis shoots
and perhaps fatally wounds c. c. Winslow,
sewing machine agent.
The June term of the United States dis.
trict court is adjourned by Judge Nelson
at Winona, because no funds are available.
At Herman, Ohm T. Linfest, cook for the
Western Union telegraph gang on the Aber-
deem extension OF the St. Paul, Minneapolis
4 Manitoba railroad, was found dead.
post mortem found that death was caused
by Il fall, causing conclusion OF the brain.
The deceased was IL member OF st. John 8
lodge. A. +. d NJ, Saltwater, also OF G. A.
r. post No. II, Minneapolis.
At Anoka, u son OF j. w. Hill, aged IL
years, was drowned in the Rum river while
bathing Mr.. Hill lost two daughters
with the past five weeks from measles,
and within the past three years has lost
his wife and children, three small children
only remaining out OF a family OF eight.
At the special election at Browns Valley
to vote on the question OF issuing bonds
to aid in building the canal between Trav-
erse and Big Stone lakes. the proposition
was carried with but one dissenting vote.
The bonds voted are $50, 600.
7. +. Jacobson, twenty one years old, in
the employ OF the North Minneapolis plan.
ing mill, while in bathing among the logs
in the pond between the falls and Union
depot was drowned.
Some OF the carpenters OF St. Paul are
on a strike for nine hours day.
Robert E. Gleason, foreman OF the Turn
bull saw mill at Oak Park, near Saltwater
was instantly killed. He slipped and fell
and was caught between belt and q bull
ley and carried around the latter until
crushed to death. His body was very
badly mangled. The deceased was forty
five years OF age, q native Of New York.
John Crett, young Pole was brough,
down from Albany, on the Manitoba road
in st. Cloud and lodged in Jail accused o.
outraging Anna, the fourteen-year- ole
daughter OF Joseph Zimmerman. who lives
near there. He narrowly escaped lyhching
The railroad commissioners have return
ed from an extended trip in the northern
part OF the state. They report stronl
sentiment in opposition OF the long ant
short haul clause in either the state or in
terstate laws at all points where the mat
ter was considered.
The divorce suit commenced in the dis
trict court at Minneapolis by Emma AS
trope against Thomas Astrope is some
thing of o novelty in divorce litigation
The plaintiff is about sixty years old. ant
the defendant eighty. They were married
in Oshkosh in 1917 and lived together un
til 1878. when, us the plaintiff alleges, by
reason OF his cruel treatment toward he
she was compelled to leave him to save hel
life.
The G. A. R. encampment at Alber
Lee was fine affair and largely attended
kaufman & Pearlman, pawnbrokers ant
elothiers Of Ma ankato were closed up un
der an attach ment suit instituted b,
Strauss & Co. OF Chicago, and an assign
ment was made to W. G. Hoerr.
Christopher Craft, well-to-do Swede O
Prior, was drowned in Big Stone lax
while fishing from leaky boat, whicl
sank with him.
Lannie Nc Afee, the well known billiard
expert. OF Minneapolis falls from d from
| thira-atory window in u delerium and sus
tanned fatal injuries.
| In the district court at Mankato the cas-
| OF John G. Porter against H. +. Salesbur
aid Cornelius Wampler, returned a yer
dict for defendants. The action was fo
| $15, 900 damages for personal injuries sus
| school house in 1884, through scaffoldin
| giving away. The defendants were the con
| tractors.
A solitary" building for insane and un
ruly convicts is to be erected at Saltwater
| The final arrangements for the Catholi
| Total Abstinence convention at st. Pau
have been completed. Tho clergy OF tn
| diocese, officers and ex- officers OF Tho Cru
saders Union and presidents OF various 80
| cieties will be invited to be present at tn
mass meeting to be held on the evening @
June Is. Large delegations from variou
neighboring cities are expected to be pres
| ent.
The secretary OF the treasury has author
| lied the employment OF six nurses to at
| tend the sick in the barracks hospital, Ke,
West, Fla, and four guards to protect tn
property OF persons removed to the hos
pital.
At Philadelphia, Robert G. Hall, age
thirty-four years, shot and killed Mrs. Lii
liam Rivers, aged thirty years, on Mort
Tenth street, where the couple were livin
as man and wife under the name OF Bur
ton. Mrs. Rivers was the wife OF Jane
| w. Rivers an actor known to the profess
ion as James Reynolds. A policeman o.
| going to the room found Mrs. Rivers dead
with two bullet holes in her head and he
throat cut Hall was lying on the foo
unconscious he having cut his throat wit
a razor. In the room was also found
marriage contract signed Robert G. Bu1
ton and Lillian L. Rivers, in which the
pledge themselves in marriage ''the sam
rs though such had been consumlnated b
ceremony" When Hall found that hi
efforts to take his life were unavailing b
tore the flesh from the wound with hi
| hands.
The Honolulu Gazette attacks Kin
Kalakaua for alleged bribery In the opiul